California gov’s enterprise supervisor evaded his strict COVID guidelines by transferring to Utah
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been accused of being out of touch with voters during the pandemic – but one of his closest business associates has left the state entirely.
Shyla Hendrickson – who has controlled the wine and hotel company PlumpJack Group by blind trust since Newsom took office in 2018 – spent most of the pandemic in Park City, Utah, where COVID restrictions were far looser than in California. sources shared with Die Post.
While residents of the Golden State resented bans requiring distance learning in schools until April, Hendrickson’s kids not only went to classrooms since last August, but played according to social media posts and a. in the volleyball team, whose personal trial training took place last July, team schedule. In California, indoor youth sports banned until March of this year.
Meanwhile, Hendrickson’s NFL agent husband Doug – who she huddled with in a $ 3 million mansion near the posh mountain resort that hosts the Sundance Film Festival – has apparently the looser rules of Utah dining exploited. The state reopened indoor dining in California in May 2020, compared to March – five months after Newsom was arrested at a maskless dinner party in November.
In February, Doug Hendrickson battled Andrew Gruel, a California restaurant executive and Food Network personality, who criticized Newsom’s indoor dining restrictions as a “slap in the face for any restaurant worker” and called on the governor to resign.
In a tweet to Gruel, which has since been deleted, Hendrickson wrote: “Was just in your Parkstadt – worry about this service and the menu first – terrible!”
Reached by The Post earlier this month, Hendrickson – whose Twitter account, like his wife’s, indicates he is in San Francisco – denied that he had moved to Utah with his family.
“No, no, no – I don’t live in Utah,” Doug Hendrickson insisted on a phone call. “We’ve been out here on a sabbatical for a few months, but we’re full-time California citizens.”
In a follow-up, Hendrickson described life in Utah as “a trip we had dreamed of for years,” adding, “California is our home and this is where we live full-time and will be back in a few weeks. ”
In fact, less than two weeks after being asked for comment by The Post, the Hendricksons packed their bags and moved out of Park City last weekend, a source told The Post.
Shyla Hendrickson was reached on the phone earlier this month and said she wanted to board a five and a half hour flight to an unspecified destination.
“I’ll circle myself with Gavin’s communications – the governor’s communications director and someone will be in touch,” she said.
Brian Brokaw, a Newsom political adviser, told the Post he would ask someone from the governor’s office to comment but did not respond. The PlumpJack representatives also did not comment.
